Mittelniederdeutsches Handwörterbuch

A concise Middle Low German dictionary compiled as a handbook version of a larger lexicon and completed after the original scholar's death. Entries give headwords, variant forms, meanings and occasional medieval glosses, while the editor sets out orthographic conventions (distinct marks for long vowels and selected ē/ê/o distinctions), alphabetization rules, and guidelines for hyphenation and compound formation. The work favors widely attested Hanseatic-language forms over rare dialectal ones, records corrections and additions from more recent sources, and condenses material to make a practical reference suitable for scholars and students of historical Low German.